As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life ...

Although it’s long been suggested that hydrothermal vents could’ve played a starring role in the formation of life on Earth ...

Hot springs, with their unique geochemical properties, have long fascinated researchers studying the origins of life. These ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir ...

New research suggests we've misunderstood how the building blocks of life on Earth came together. See what scientists found.

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

The BBC will mark 50 years since the production of 'Life on Earth,' the David Attenborough series that set the template for ...

Thirty-eight scientists wrote a paper arguing that researchers should abandon all attempts to create mirror life cells. But ...

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...